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Ordnance Survey is working with the Information Centre for health and social care (The IC) to support the wider health sector through greater use of Ordnance Survey data. As you may already know, geographic intelligence helps to power effective and confident health planning and implementation of strategy.

Among the many vital applications of geographical information systems (GIS) in the health sector are the identification of health inequalities, causal analysis and trends. These factors can guide strategic decisions on the targeting of services to clinical hot spots, investment priorities, the extension of patient choice and the supply of health advice to the citizen.

Health service managers can also use our data to support decision making on performance management, estate planning, efficient routing of mobile services, asset management, feasibility studies, scenario modelling, epidemiology analysis, and all forms of internal and external communications.